environment
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Environmentalists warn of bumblebee's extinction after Trump halts regulationsOrder for 60-day pause on regulations not yet implemented includes protection for endangered rusty patched bumblebee, which experts say is near extinction -
Last stand: 'water protectors' return to Standing Rock as drilling set to beginWhile tribal leaders have urged activists to let the fight play out in the courts, many on the ground have called for a final push as pipeline moves ahead
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Final phase of Dakota Access pipeline to be approved, a major blow to Standing Rock SiouxThe army corps of engineers says it intends to grant a permit for the oil pipeline to cross the Missouri river, following Donald Trump’s executive order -
Patagonia pulls out of Utah trade show in protest of state's public land grabCompany founder has urged Utah governor to stop trying to undo the decision by former president Obama to create the Bears Ears National Monument
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FBI posed as journalists to get evidence on Bundys. Now it could hurt their caseTrial stemming from a 2014 standoff could be derailed by a ploy to pose as a ‘fake film company’ and an ethics scandal involving a BLM officer and Burning Man
energy
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There’s a long list of blame and shame for Australia’s threadbare climate and energy policy, but Turnbull’s party takes the cakeHard facts unmask the fiction behind Coalition's 'coal comeback'
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Queensland's electricity price spikes far worse than South Australia during 'crisis'Analysis shows spike in fossil fuel-dominated state’s wholesale spot price this year far eclipses that in SA in July 2016 which sparked calls for a national inquiry into renewable energy
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latest news
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More than 330 pilot whales die in New Zealand mass strandingOn Sunday 220 remain stranded on remote coastline off South Island with 100 returned to sea with the help of volunteers
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UK's cash-starved parks at tipping point of decline, MPs warnSlashed budgets risk the nation’s 27,000 parks becoming no-go areas, with negative effects on park-goers’ health and the environment
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Hundreds of whales die in mass stranding on New Zealand beachUrgent plea issued for locals to drop work and school commitments and head to the remote beach to save surviving whales
elephant conservation
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Elephants in crisis: MPs accuse government and Europe of dragging their feet over ivory ban‘This is the last chance saloon,’ say politicians and campaigners pushing for urgent action
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Live Q&A: What can we do to help elephants?Volunteer? Raise money? Be a citizen scientist? Join us Monday 13 Feb at 1 - 2.30pm GMT to talk about what we can all do to help elephants.
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Armed herders invade Kenya's most important wildlife conservancyNomadic herders have killed wildlife and torched buildings but questions remain over the causes of the violence
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Two wildlife rangers shot dead in CataloniaAccused has ‘no memory’ of shotgun killings in Spanish olive grove
featured series
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineTesla moves beyond electric cars with new California battery farmThe project is part of Elon Musk’s plan to help transform the power grid
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An apple a dayAn apple a dayMorning Routines – the making of long-distance runner Scott Jurek – videoWhat ingredients are required to make an ultramarathon runner? In Boulder, Colorado, Scott Jurek has concocted quite the recipe that has kept him going the distance for the past two decades
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the big picture
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The week in wildlife – in picturesA tiger family drinking at the watering hole, a nightingale and a snake that plays dead are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Republican elders call for new national carbon tax to replace federal regulations